Mark Twain Quotes
Modesty died when clothes were born.
Twain, Mark. Mark Twain's Notebook. Harper & Brothers, 1935.
Note the “proper” dress of the women in the photograph. The impropriety of a woman showing bare skin has not been unique to fundamentalist Muslim societies.
Some CIA and other agents who questioned prisoners in the Iraq War, forced the prisoners to remain naked throughout the day and night which was against the U. S. Military rules of how prisoners should be treated. Fife offered this seemingly stupid and feeble explanation. His intellect was not thought very highly of by the nation’s military leaders. See {620028}.
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer. He was lauded as the "greatest humorist the United States has produced," and William Faulkner called him "the father of American literature". His novels include The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), the latter often called "The Great American Novel".
